TrackServ supports organizations responsible for the movement of critical assets and the safety of people.

Maptuit TrackServ is a set of web services that enables you to build high-value web-based tracking and location-based services into your existing applications - with development and deployment measured in weeks, not years. From call centers to fleet operations management through to emergency services, TrackServ supports those organizations responsible for the movement of critical assets and the safety of people.

Maptuit TrackServ builds upon the Maptuit MapServ web services to provide services specialized to asset tracking, including:

• Reverse geocoding - to precisely located an asset.
• Route fitting - fit captured points to reconstruct a route.
• Route costing - run routes between locations to determine miles traveled, tolls incurred, or fuel consumed.
• Proximity search - find all assets within a given proximity of a location.
• Geofencing - test coordinates against a registered set of regions.

Reverse Geocoding

TrackServ's reverse geocoder can take a coordinate and return with the closest street address. Hints can be provided to 'steer' the algorithm towards certain classes of roads. For instance, when reverse geocoding a coordinate captured in a densely populated neighborhood, the nearest major street may be more useful than the name of a side street or back alley.

Route Fitting

Maptuit's routing system can take passed coordinates and fit a route to it. From the resulting route, various metrics can be calculated using TrackServ's Route Costing services.

Route Costing

Maptuit's routing engine calculates many metrics from a route. From either a system generated route, or route fitted from a set of points can determine, distance, compliance with the National network (heavy truck legislation), toll charges, and time estimates.

Proximity Search

When searching for points of interest within a given proximity, TrackServ returns the matching points based on their distance through the road network. Proximity searching can take the location of an asset in motion and find the nearest static locations, or vice versa. For instance, one can quickly find the closest service location to a tractor underway as well as find all tractors within a given driving distance of a parked trailer.

This patent pending technology can also take into account the user's route to ensure that the points returned are ranked based on their distance out of the course of travel. As it is based around the road network, this approach avoids the problems of less sophisticated 'as the crow-flies' proximity searching by taking into account the geography of the area.